Ethnographic object

Made:
1880-1915 in Africa
maker:
African people

Long iron spike or bayonet riveted to an animal horn, like from the Taurotragus genus, fitted at end with human lower mandible, hollow of horn filled with grasses, African, 1880-1915

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A11363
Materials:
iron, horn, rhino., bone, human mandible and grass
type:
human remains, bone and bayonet
credit:
Wellcome Trust